“Who took care of you after she died?”
“My father. Prison was beastly. Her sleepless
night had left her languid but not stupefied, and for an hour or so the work
distracted her altogether from her troubles. I can’t rest or work or settle down to anything while
things are like this between you and me. Ever since the young police
officer had arrived on her doorstep the clock had started
ticking faster. A dozen
shynesses and intellectual barriers were being outflanked or broken down in her
mind. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city at
night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret;
that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating
heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings,
a secret to the heart nearest it!' … It kind of terrifies me," said Ruth, looking up,
first at the face of her husband, then at McClintock's. The three clerks fought for the only window, and saw her whisked into a
hansom. She addressed Anna with a
beaming smile and a very creditable mixture of condescension and officiousness. Rich folks,
once. She aimed directly at Rhea’s head. ‘That’s right, you bone idle do-nothings. All the king's horses and all the king's men could not undo what
was done; nor kill the strange exquisite flower that had grown up in his own
lonely heart.
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